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Opening Drawings From A Network Drive - AutoCAD 2007

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One of our CAD users where I work is experiencing this issue: When accessing our drawings from the storage server, he cannot open. He can get to the drawing files, but must drag them to his desktop and then open. Sounds like it should be a simple fix or setting. Any clues? He claims this started about 2 weeks ago. I may try a system restore if all else fails.

SLW210's Discipline Details

Occupation

Design Draftsman

Discipline

Multi-disciplinary

Details

Mostly do drafting related to manufacturing. From doing site layouts with proposed updates, additions and renovations to be budgeted and submitted for bid, to updating and changing existing drawings to reflect maintenance and repair/revision work done on site.

Using

AutoCAD 2011

Join Date

May 2007

Location

South Florida, USA

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11,330

Sounds like a network folder permissions problem.

What happens when the CAD user tries to open the file on the network? Any messages? Are they using AutoCAD to open the file or Windows Explorer?

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